Delta is banning emotional support animals from flights that are more than eight hours long after an uptick in reports of animals defecating, urinating and biting other passengers.Also banning animals under 4 months of age because of CDC vaccinations policy. I know we are not Delta, but maybe there is hope on the horizon for some sanity on this issue.

Rents,

Interesting.

8 hours is still a long to hold it in! Add the 2 hours required for international flights (8 hours is not domestic) and the poor pooch's bladder is easily at 10+ hours!

Pets in diapers? Hmm. That's further out there than needing a pet to cope with your emotions in my opinion.

Pets wearing diapers is not unusual, especially if the pet is an older animal.

Before this thread veers off too far into the wild blue yonder, I'll simply agree with this statement: "maybe there is hope on the horizon for some sanity on this issue".

The whole argument for ESAs from a logical perspective seems to collapse on itself when we consider that some of the most stressful, noisy, uncomfortable, crowded public accommodations (hospitals, restaurants, grocery stores, hotels) are mostly exempt from ESA rules, but the most controlled, low stress, least crowded/noisy place (aka one's home) must allow them 100% of the time.

esadoctors.com/where-can-i-take-emotional-support-animals/

David M are you for real?????

Planes have change tables in the rest rooms to clean the kids bottom and put on new diaper.

PETS can't be brought into that area and put on that table-- seriously??????

myob ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-crotch_pants

David, why so upset over dogs going the bathroom in public? Marking the fire hydrant, classic Americana. Could even be a Norman Rockwell painting.

Maybe dial back the sensitivity?

Oh David this is dialed back. Did it just for you cause I knew how passionate you get over dog do do!!!

NE, perhaps I overstated how "upset" I get. I find it very bizarre that it's acceptable for a dog to do its number 1 and number 2 business on public property but a child must wear a diaper. Just a comparison that's all.

myob, a lot of this are natural, that doesn't mean it's appropriate to do in public.

Where is the emotional line?

We have pets in our home for emotional reasons - companionship, joy of a furry friend happy to see you on arival, lowers blood pressure to pat them...

I think EVERY pet animal is for emotional support.

Major inconvenience to the Majority

who don't participate.

Brad: The "emotional line" is whether or not a person is considered "disabled" by legal definition. That is the difference.

The PROBLEM is that this line is very hard to define and very easy for someone to cheat around.

I have no problem with real emotional support animals for people who are disabled. But my GUESS is that the number of actual people like that is probably at 10% (or less) of all people who have Emotional Support Animal documentation out there. :(

- John...

I don't understand why requiring some type of dog diapers for animals, especially those that have to be in a public place for more than three or four hours at a time.

If people are going to use this idiotic law to their advantage the least they can do is make them jump through a few legal hoops...

I have a tenant that should be wearing diapers and he is in his 30's. Why he wants to write his name in the snow is beyond me.

I have a disability that impacts one or more major life function.

I am not disabled. There is a difference, but not a lot of people realize it.

I’m all for any measures that make it more difficult for an untrained dog to be where Scooter and I go.

Indeed -- the problem with ESAs is abuse of the system. If training were required like for Service Animals (even on a lesser scale, of course), then we might be able to eliminate most of these issues.

- John...

CGB- you're right, it's sad but true. They should care because it affects the cost of renting. Landlords have to make up the potential damages somehow. If you can't cover your losses by charging the individual then everyone winds up paying more as kind of an ESA tax.